The former village of Blagoveshchensky Pogost, unfortunately, is no longer on the maps today. The nearby village of Timoshkino can be seen on them at the junction of the Aleksandrovsky, Kirzhachsky and Kolchuginsky districts. Meanwhile, the ancestral estate of the Nagikh princes has been known since the Middle Ages. There was a princely residence here. The Nagikhs themselves became direct relatives of the royal family when Ivan the Terrible took Marfa Nagaya as his seventh wife (1572). The oldest building of the Blagoveshchensky Pogost Ensemble is the Annunciation Church, built in 1501. The Annunciation Church is a rare type of baptized church, which is the prototype of the Ascension Church in Kolomenskoye. It dates back to the examples of Moscow architecture of the late 15th - early 16th centuries. Apparently, Western European masters took part in its construction. The monument is close in style to the first buildings of the Aleksandrovskaya Sloboda from the time of Vasily III. The second surviving temple in the Blagoveshchensky Pogost is a wooden one - the Znamenskaya cold church was built in 1751. The bell tower, visible from afar among the tops of forest trees, was built much later, in 1851. The churchyard is surrounded by a stone fence. The complex of churches of the Blagoveshchensky Pogost is considered an architectural monument of federal significance, as evidenced by the rusty plaque installed at the entrance.
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